The Amaranth Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte] |
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To wail and not amend a life mispentMeans to confess, but means not to repent:
Tongue-penitents, like him who too much owes,
Run more in debt, and live but to impose.
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